The virtual flute: credits.
The virtual
flute is the work of Andrew
Botros, a final year student in Computer
Science and Engineering, who did his honours research project
in the Music Acoustics Lab in 2001. For this work, Andrew was
the winner of the national final of the Siemen's
Innovation Prize. This work is described in the paper:
- Botros, A., Smith, J. and Wolfe, J. (2002) "The virtual
Boehm flute---a web service that predicts multiphonics,
microtones and alternative fingerings", Acoustics Australia,
30, 61-65.
The flutist upon whose playing the 'playability' model is based
is Jane Cavanagh,
principal flute of the University
of New South Wales Orchestra. The units of playability generated
by the model are therefore named janes, so a note indicated
by three stars has a playability of 3 janes, and so on.
 
This research is supported by the Australian
Research Council. Other collaborators include flute maker
Mark O'Connor of The
Woodwind Group, classical flute maker Terry
McGee, and flutist Geoffrey
Collins of the Australia
Ensemble.
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